The Most Famous
MILITARY PERSONNELS from Tajikistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Tadzhik Military Personnels. The pantheon dataset contains 1,468 Military Personnels, 1 of which were born in Tajikistan. This makes Tajikistan the birth place of the 84th most number of Military Personnels behind Myanmar (Burma) and Taiwan.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Tadzhik Military Personnels of all time. This list of famous Tadzhik Military Personnels is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin (800 - 841)
With an HPI of 56.19, Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin is the most famous Tadzhik Military Personnel. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Ḥaydar ibn Kāwūs (Arabic: حيدر بن كاوس, Persian: خِیذَر اِبنِ کاووس, romanized: Kheyzar ebn-e Kāvus), better known by his hereditary title of al-Afshīn (Arabic: الأفشين, Persian: اَفشین, romanized: Afshin), was a senior general of Sogdian Iranian descent at the court of the Abbasid caliphs and a vassal prince of Oshrusana. He played a leading role in the campaigns of Caliph al-Mu'tasim, and was responsible for the suppression of the rebellion of Babak Khorramdin and for his battlefield victory over the Byzantine emperor Theophilos during the Amorium campaign. Eventually he was suspected of disloyalty and was arrested, tried and then executed in June 841.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as military personnels born between 800 and 800. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased military personnels include Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin.
